Rate the last movie you saw

[Jack Brickman]

John Wick 4

I mean, it was definitely half an hour too long, and any time there's extended plot segments I couldn't have given less of a fuck, but this movie was fucking rad. The sequence when Wick gets the incendiary rounds is one of the coolest action set pieces I've seen in anything, right up there with the scene with Halle Berry's dogs in the third movie.

I think my favorite part of this series is how absurdly seriously it takes itself. There's never any mugging to the camera or acknowledging how dumb it all is. It's kind of refreshing in an era where everything is tongue in cheek and constantly breaking the fourth wall.

Donnie Yen was awesome.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Ant Man Quantumania... I'm super confused.

As these Marvel movies increase in scope and epicness, why are they getting worse?

The camera shot in the car from the front seat getting all three of Scott, Hope and Cassie was weirdly stretched vertically.. it never should've been acceptable for a YouTube or TikTok and it made it into this???

Then the sound... it was bad. Like, one of the worst mixed blockbusters I've heard.

I'm just.. confused. Disney and Marvel might write shitty stories but they don't drop the ball in terms of production.

Overall like... 2/5? Loki was better. This dropped the Kang ball. The ants deus ex machina sucked.

Highlights: Bill Murray in the MCU. I didn't mind what they did with MODOK. Oh, and if anyone drinks Aperol/Campari spritzes, try adding a touch of falernum. It's quite good.

 

[David.]

Sisu is overrated

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

This is going to sound stupid, but John Wick 4 is well written.

The sound of John hitting that makeshift punching bag to open the film was intentionally louder than an entire building being demolished. It fit the theme of the franchise perfectly.

That same depth of sound didn't come back until John was killing the fat German guy.

To play around with the significance of one man's rage like that, and to simply do it with sound is pretty fucking cool. Well done.

 

[bigfoot5415]

Little Mermaid
6.5/10

If you go in with the understanding it's a live action remake of a cartoon, it's enjoyable. I heard people commenting on the movie who had never seen the original. They'd question songs or characters.

All the cast killed it, but some of the dialog & cgi was just bad. I was surprised the underwater scenes looked as dull & cheap as they did considering everything Disney had done to date.

 

[David.]

Midsommar was nice and fucked up

 

[Jack Brickman]

This is going to sound stupid, but John Wick 4 is well written.

The sound of John hitting that makeshift punching bag to open the film was intentionally louder than an entire building being demolished. It fit the theme of the franchise perfectly.

That same depth of sound didn't come back until John was killing the fat German guy.

To play around with the significance of one man's rage like that, and to simply do it with sound is pretty fucking cool. Well done.

That's less writing and more direction, editing, and sound design. I'd argue the writing is the weakest aspect of the Wick series. It just doesn't matter because John Wick doesn't need a complicated reason to kill a bunch of dudes so long as the action is awesome and looks great, which thus far has been the case.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

That's less writing and more direction, editing, and sound design. I'd argue the writing is the weakest aspect of the Wick series. It just doesn't matter because John Wick doesn't need a complicated reason to kill a bunch of dudes so long as the action is awesome and looks great, which thus far has been the case.

Fair. You're more correct.

Whoever came up with that idea did a great job.

I was less impressed by the single shot in Paris. I feel like everyone is doing the uncut shot now.

I thought the axe scene in Berlin was better.

 

[bigfoot5415]

Across the Spiderverse


11/10

 

[MD13]

Across the Spiderverse


11/10

Easily the best art I’ve ever seen in an animated movie. Nothing is close imo. The creativity is just mind blowing.

 

[inliner311]

Fast X was alright. I still wish they tried to showcase more car culture in it even if the car culture wasn't really true to form. Its too much CGI, action hero movie now. They feature the same cars over and over.

Im surprise they put it on VOD this early. It's basically a sign that the franchise has run it's course and Fast 11 being the last one was the right decision.

 

[Ohio]

Fast X was alright. I still wish they tried to showcase more car culture in it even if the car culture wasn't really true to form. Its too much CGI, action hero movie now. They feature the same cars over and over.

Im surprise they put it on VOD this early. It's basically a sign that the franchise has run it's course and Fast 11 being the last one was the right decision.

Series should have ended after Fast Five. Its been shitty B action movies ever since

 

[The Oi]

Haven’t seen Across the Spider Verse yet, just the trailer. The animation from Into the Spider Verse was like nothing I’d ever seen before.

My son is 8, and I just think about how different what these kids are seeing is from what we (I’m 40 next week) did. The girls get much better messaging in most of them, there’s more depth to the plots and characters, and the animation is just incredible.

 

[Typhoon]

That's less writing and more direction, editing, and sound design. I'd argue the writing is the weakest aspect of the Wick series. It just doesn't matter because John Wick doesn't need a complicated reason to kill a bunch of dudes so long as the action is awesome and looks great, which thus far has been the case.

Yes! The John Wick franchise may seem predominantly focused on spectacular action scenes, but there’s a considerable amount of depth and intricate storytelling concealed beneath its surface that gets glossed over or dismissed as generic writing. I think several people picked up on the Dante's inferno and Herculean references but I read an article that went far deeper into the Greek and mythological influences than I could ever pick up on. You should check it out, it's a good read!

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82634352?utm_campaign=postshare_fan
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Ultimately, these movies are about John Wick trying to return home. It’s action movie as epic poem, blending Dante’s Divine Comedy with bits of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, as well as the myths of Hercules, Achilles, Orpheus and Eurydice, Persephone and Hades. Chapter 4 even introduces new Greco-Roman allusions, like the myrmidons, the name for the Marquis’ henchdudes with highwaters, like Marko Zaror’s Chidi. The myrmidons were soldiers commanded by Achilles in The Iliad. As Ovid tells it, Zeus transformed the ants on Aegina into people after Hera had sent a plague to the island that wiped out the population, and they still possessed the loyalty of ants to their leader. Like Odysseus, John wants to reunite with his wife, and on his way to her, he’s aided — and challenged — by various god-like characters. On a surface level, there are parallels in the stories, shared characters, like Charon the ferryman on the River Styx; Helen of Troy, who inadvertently started a war; Nobody, which is what Odysseus calls himself when he meets the cyclops Polyphemus. With his intuitive knowledge of where to find John, Donnie Yen’s Caine feels not unlike the blind prophet Tiresias. But Odysseus and Dante are connected. As Teodolinda Barolini writes, “Ulysses is the quintessential voyager who comes to perdition, who is lost at sea. As many have noted, Ulysses is Dante-pilgrim’s negative double.” Now that John Wick’s story has come to its conclusion, his emotional arc hews closer to Dante’s work than it does to the Greek epics. John Wick’s story is The Divine Comedy with headshots.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

Easily the best art I’ve ever seen in an animated movie. Nothing is close imo. The creativity is just mind blowing.

I felt myself losing track of plot elements because I was so busy taking in all the visuals. Different characters in different styles. DIfferent characters in different frame rates. It was all so good.

I did take the time to admire Rio Morales and how hot she was drawn. Damn.